 Italian writer would have been perfectly easy, but, could be of no service : the attempt .-at union therefore has been relinquished, and these relations are submitted to the public, connected by no other circumstance than their being the -productions...  The Works - Page xxby George Crabbe - 1823Full view - About this book
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1812 - 430 pages
...difficulty ; and to have taken that of the Italian writer, would have been perfectly easy, but could bs of no service : the attempt at union therefore has...have not a fair and legitimate claim to the poetic ch*racter : in vulgar estimation, indeed, all that is not prose, passes for poetry ; but I have not... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 240 pages
...to the same purpose, the entertainment of his Readers. It has been already acknowledged, that there compositions have no pretensions to be estimated with the more lofty and heroic kind <*f Poems, but I feel great reluctance in admitting that they have not a fair and legitimate claim... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...know nothing beside (and certainly nothing in these times) that would produce such effect, lioccace, it is true, avoids all difficulty of this kind, by...heroic kind of poems ; but I feel great reluctance in admittiug that they have not a fair and legitimate claim to the poetic character: in vulgar estimation,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1852 - 560 pages
...shrine of St. Thomas may be said to excuse, I know nothing beside (and certainly nothing in these times) that would produce such effect. Boccace, it is true,...great reluctance in admitting that they have not a lair and legitimate claim to the poetic character. In vulgar estimation, indeed, all that is not prose... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 568 pages
...of his readers. It has been already acknowledged, that these compositions have no pretensions to bo estimated with the more lofty and heroic kind of poems;...great reluctance in admitting, that they have not ft fair and h^it,' , to the poetic character ; and I trust something more of the poetic character will... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1906 - 532 pages
...excuse, I know nothing beside (and certainly nothing in these times) that would produce such effeft. Boccace, it is true, avoids all difficulty of this...more lofty and heroic kind of poems, but I feel great reludtance in admitting that they have not a fair and legitimate claim to the poetic character. In... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1908 - 642 pages
...shrine of St. Thomas may be said to excuse, I know nothing beside (and certainly nothing in these times) that would produce such effect. Boccace, it is true,...reluctance in admitting that they have not a fair and legitimato claim to the poetic character : in vulgar estimation, indeed, all that is not prose passes... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...Athenian tragic poet, one of the accusers of Socrates. H 9. Caiphas: see Matthew 26:57-68. GEORGE CRABBE "It has been already acknowledged that these compositions...fair and legitimate claim to the poetic character; .... nor was I aware that, by describing as faithfully as I could men, manners, and things, I was forfeiting... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...Athenian tragic poet, one of the accusers of Socrates. H 9, Caiphas: see Matthew 26:57-68. GEORGE CRABBE "It has been already acknowledged that these compositions...fair and legitimate claim to the poetic character; .... nor was I aware that, by describing as faithfully as I could men, manners, and things, I was forfeiting... | |
 | Arthur Symons - English literature - 1909 - 362 pages
...and powerful work was, in the strict sense, poetry. 'It has been already acknowledged,' he says, ' that these compositions have no pretensions to be estimated with the more lofty and heroic poems ; but I feel great reluctance in admitting that they have not a fair and legitimate claim to... | |
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